Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:36:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The patch I sent puts read requests near the head of the request
> queue, and to hell with aggregate throughput.  It's tunable with
> `elvtune -b'.  And it fixes it.

for i in `seq 9`; do elvtune -b $i /dev/hda; done

-b doesn't seem to change the "max_bomb_segments".  Does your patch fix this?

Tested on 2.4.15-pre1.

MF